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The Liber Proditor Armorum is a treatise written in 812.M39 by Techmarine Suprema Lysol Blane of the Imperial Fists concerning the use of armored vehicles in Traitor Legions.

Content

The full content of the work is unknown, but focuses on the Iron Warriors use of armored units. The text has been most widely discussed due to its insight on the Iron Warriors' practice of creating a deep union between crew and machine, especially Predator tanks. While Imperial forces often times engage in crew-machine unions to pilot military vehicles, the Iron Warriors engage in this practice in a way that forms a permanent cybernetic bond between vehicle and crew. Techmarine Blane notes that Iron Warrior crew members are commonly sealed into the pilot compartments much like what occurs in dreadnought internment.

Application

The Liber Proditor Armorum has demonstrated a practical value in engaging Chaos Space Marines. In the Battle of Ramisen Point, the Imperial Fists utterly defeat an Iron Warriors armored advance with the use of devastators equipped with targeting data that made use of the text.

Controversy

The work was considered for being included within the Codex Astartes but denied by the Iron Hands who engage in similar practices to those described by the text. The Iron Hands maintain that their rejection of work being included within the Codex was to prevent its information from falling into the wrong hands.

The text has also been criticized as reflecting the characteristics inherent to the Geneseed of the Imperial Fists, in particular a tendency towards self-imposed penance and contrition. How these characteristics are considered by detractors to negatively effect the work is not explicitly stated.

Sources

  • Index Astartes Beasts of Steel: Chaos Space Marines Tanks, predator entry.